Members of Union of Poles in Belarus detained at border

• 19.08.2008, 16:30

Representatives of the Union of Poles in Belarus are detained at Belarusian-polish border.

As Radio Racyja was informed by a representative of the Union of Poles in Belarus Ines Todryk: “For 3 hours I and the head of Hrodna branch of the Union of Poles in Belarus Myachyslau Yaskevich are kept at the border, and we cannot go to Poland”.

Over this time Belarusian customs officers were simply keeping their passports without saying nothing, and then personal search started. Besides, they were ordered to fill in bills, though now private persons are not required to do so.

As we have informed, Ines Todryk is the editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Glos z-nad Niemna (In Exile)”.